World's Best Diet? Or Just the Way You Should Always Eat?
An expert has compared all the popular diets out there -- l low carb, low fat, low glycemic, Mediterranean, Paleo and vegan -- against a regular old " mixed, balanced" diet. And guess which one won? You guessed it. The old three-square-meals a day version, consisting of plant and animal foods, or as he puts it, " a diet comprising 'preferentially minimally processed foods direct from nature and food made up of such ingredients, ... mostly plants, and ... in which animal foods are themselves the products, directly or ultimately, of pure plant foods.'" According to youbeauty.com, it's not that the other diets (or, as Weight Watchers, which despises the word, calls it, "a new way of eating"), are bad. "The problem is that each, by virtue of being prized and heavily marketed for its distinctions, misses the point that their individual successes are due to the commonalities among them," the Web site notes. Blind adherence to